puérils
\pɥe.ʁil\
The verdict
“puérils” is uncommon French (frequency #78,771 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,771
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de puéril.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puerils · puérils · French
puérils · rank #78,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,771
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH purchase
Nearest frequency peer: purchase (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « puérils »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pumpkin
pumpkin
21,233 corpus weight
- purchase
purchase
21,232 corpus weight
- puérils
puérils
21,230 corpus weight
- pyrénéennes
pyrénéennes
21,228 corpus weight
- pâteux
pâteux
21,227 corpus weight
- pénétrez
pénétrez
21,226 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puérils » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puérils |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɥe.ʁil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puérils » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puérils is uncommon French at frequency #78,771 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɥe.ʁil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de puéril.".
No misspelling variants are generated for puérils in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is puérils, spelled P-U-É-R-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de puéril.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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